6 Nasty Things Sarah Palin's Backstabbing Former Aide Said About Her In His Unpublished Manuscript

Henry Blodget

Feb. 21, 2011, 12:19 PM

AP A former aide to Alaska governor Sarah Palin has just stabbed her in the back, writing a tell-all manuscript about his time in her service.

The aide, Frank Bailey, says he joined Palin's campaign for Alaska governor because he liked her and believed she would stand up for his "FOX News" values. But then he came to conclude that she was just a petty, vindictive bitch.

At least that's the gist of excerpts of Bailey's draft manuscript that got sent to a bunch of newspapers last week.

Bailey's manuscript, which was co-written with California author Ken Morris and an Alaskan Palin critic named Jeanne Devon, runs 456 pages. According to the Anchorage Daily News, it is based on some 60,000 emails Bailey sent or received while working for Palin. It is titled BLIND ALLEGIANCE TO SARAH PALIN: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years.

The manuscript was emailed to the media last Friday, along with a pitch-letter to a publisher from Bailey's agent, Carol Mann (no one has bought the book yet). Mann says that the manuscript is just an unfinished draft and that none of it was supposed to be released. Bailey's co-author Ken Morris says he's appalled at the leak but believes the manuscript paints a fair picture of Palin.

A spokeswoman for Sarah Palin's political action committee, meanwhile, has dismissed the manuscript as "untruth" and says Palin probably won't be commenting on it.

In Palin's defense, if the anecdotes of the book that have been released are the worst things Bailey can find to say about her in 456 pages, she has nothing to fear. We already knew she isn't a saint.

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Sarah Palin broke the law while running for governor in 2002, Bailey says. How? She teamed up with a "soft-money" group to produce a television ad

One chapter asserts Palin broke election law by coordinating with the Republican Governors Association during her 2006 campaign for governor. State candidates can't team up with soft-money groups such as the Republican Governors Association, which paid for TV commercials and mailers in Alaska during the election in a purported "independent" effort.

At the time, the Alaska Democratic Party had accused the RGA and Palin of working together on an ad that included Palin striding from the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage.

In his book, Bailey says the allegation was true. Palin and her aides marched along the block in front of the hotel again and again in order to allow a camera operator to capture footage for the ad, he said. "(Palin aide) Kris Perry, when orchestrating that nutty- parade at the hotel, was following the directions of the RGA cameraman and/or whomever he was working for," Bailey wrote.

Palin's husband Todd orchestrated the attack on "Troopergate" cop Mike Wooten, Bailey says, and offered to reward Bailey for his muck-raking by making him Palin's chief of staff

Bailey wrote in his book that Todd Palin recruited him to go after [trooper Mike] Wooten, saying 'it's time to get s--t, done, and it's us, Frank. You and me." Todd Palin kept feeding him information on Wooten, Bailey writes, which he passed on to troopers.

Bailey at one point called a trooper lieutenant, outlining various complaints against Wooten and saying the governor and her husband were wondering why the trooper still had a job. Bailey wrote in the book that he subsequently told Todd Palin about the call, and the reaction was that it was "great stuff."

Bailey wrote that Todd Palin showed his gratitude by asking him if he'd consider becoming Palin's chief of staff.

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Palin picked a Supreme Court justice in part because she trashed one of Palin's enemies, Bailey says

Bailey suggests in the book that one of Palin's picks for the Supreme Court was colored by her animosity against [trooper Mike] Wooten. He wrote that Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen ruled in favor of Palin's sister in her [child] custody dispute with Wooten, and that [Palin's husband] Todd Palin raved about how Christen raked Wooten over the coals.

Christen later applied for the state Supreme Court and was picked by the Alaska Judicial Council as one of the two candidates for Palin to consider appointing. Bailey wrote that he warned Palin it would be a conflict of interest, but she wasn't interested.

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Palin worships a different God than the one who preaches the virtues of love, honor, and charity, Bailey says

Bailey says he regretted his actions on Palin's behalf, describing them as contrary to the Christian principles in which he believed.

"I have no doubt Sarah's belief in God was real and passionate. Hers just wasn't the same God I knew growing up, the one who preached the importance of love, honor, and charity," Bailey wrote. "That I turned my back on these teachings and offered her blind allegiance is a cross I will forever bear."